Gidleigh

Tithe apportionment, c.1840. Part of the parish index.

Who owned the land

A further 29 acres (1%) have no owner recorded: commons and waste.

Who farmed it

Where the occupier is also the owner they are not listed here; where no owner is recorded the occupier is shown.

What the land was

The biggest named holdings

Village (2,443 ac); Gidley Barton (307 ac); Scorhill (85 ac); Thowle (79 ac); Moortown (65 ac); Battery (65 ac); Berrydown (59 ac); Chapple (56 ac)

These are the estate or holding names written in the survey.

Names on the old map

Single-use names worth a look (names with a landscape or history word that occur once): Thowle Moor (23 ac); Lower Mill Hill (13 ac); Great Moor (10 ac); Creaber Pound (6 ac); Middle Mill Hill (5 ac); Higher Mill Hill (5 ac); Church Close (4 ac); Long Ley (4 ac); Mill Hill Copse (4 ac); Part of Thowle Moor (3 ac); Lower Long Moor (2 ac); Higher Furze Close (1 ac); Higher Mill Meadow (1 ac); Higher Long Moor (1 ac); Furze in Brake (1 ac); Round Hill (1 ac); Waste in Higher Mill Meadow (1 ac); Moortown Moor (1 ac); Plantation in Higher Long Moor (1 ac); Church and Yard (0 ac); Waste in Great Castle Park (0 ac); Waste in Lower Mill Hill (0 ac); Waste in Lower Pound Close (0 ac); Waste in Church Park (0 ac)

Commonest field names: Garden (14); House, Bartons etc (10); Long Close (8); Little Park (5); Meadow (5); Moor (4); Higher Meadow (4); Wastes by Roads (4); Plot (3); Plantation (3)

Places on our site on or beside this land

Credit: Tithe polygons: Devon Tithe Mapping Polygonisation Project (Adnams 2023), © Devon County Council and Devon Heritage Centre, CC BY 4.0. Transcriptions: Devon County Council. The records may contain errors and duplicate entries; owner names are merged by rule where plainly the same person.